Thread by @CarolinaBolado

So a quick rundown of the Kleiman v. Wright trial today: it was cross-examination of Ira Kleiman all day.

Wright's attorneys went through a few topics, including Dave Kleiman's declining health, his personal finances (which were in very bad shape), and Ira's use of the devices he'd found in Dave's house

Wright's attorney showed jurors a slew of emails from 2008 before the bitcoin white paper was released in Oct in which Dave Kleiman told Wright and others that he was not doing well health-wise and was having trouble getting work done

There was also an email from Craig to Dave that made it seem like the white paper was mainly done and asking Dave to look for any "glaring errors."

Ira testified that his brother was not much of a saver and that he left only debts when he died. In an email to Craig in Feb 2014, he said: "Knowing my brother, if there was more than $1000 in the account he would have sold it."

Dave had apparently borrowed against his house and owed more than $560k. He owed more than $17k to the IRS.

In a June 2015 letter to the Treasury Dept, Ira's attorney said Ira had found no indication in Dave's belongings of any bitcoins or business dealings with Wright.

From the letter: "The only indications that he would have of any agreements between David and Dr. Wright or W&K LLC would have been transmitted to him by Dr. Wright." Wright was the only source, the attorney said.

Finally, at the end of the day, the focus was on the physical devices found at Dave's home. In a Feb 2014 email to Wright, Ira said he was "nervous about making mistakes" and admitted he might have already by throwing out some papers and drives he couldn't access.

But he continued to use the hard drives through 2018, even after he had filed the lawsuit against Wright. Ira said he never touched Dave's files, but he simply added his personal files.

Cross examination of Ira isn't done -- there's about an hour left that the attorneys will finish up tomorrow morning.